We’ve all seen the movies – Captain America and his shield bashing Nazis left and right. If one of the most iconic symbols of American Freedom does it, are we supposed to follow his example?
After the inauguration of President Trump, white supremacist and Nazi Richard Spencer was punched in the face by a protester while giving an interview. Video of the assault quickly spread around the Internet, with many celebrating the attack.
Last weekend was the NHL All-Star game and skills competition, with Brent Burns, Martin Jones, and Joe Pavelski representing the San Jose Sharks in Los Angeles. And to no one's surprise, they were all booed!
Pavelski scored a goal during the tournament for the Pacific Division, and Burns scored during the skills competition's "Four Line Challenge". But since they represented the Pacific, we have to talk about the impossible shot Mike Smith made.
And across the country, the 2017 NFL Pro Bowl (their all-star game) was happening at the same time. The Oakland Raiders had seven Pro Bowlers (tied for most from any team), and the San Francisco 49ers had...none.
In the meantime the 49ers managed to hire a former safety with no General Manager-related experience as their new GM. It's really not clear what Jed York, the 49ers owner, is trying out here, and why he would sign John Lynch to a six year contract.
But really, how much worse could it get for the 49ers?
Over the weekend I migrated legoktm.com and associated services over to a new server. It's powered by Debian Jessie instead of the slowly aging Ubuntu Trusty. Most services were migrated with no downtime by rsync'ing content over and the updating DNS. Only git.legoktm.com had some downtime due to needing to stop the service before copying over the database.
I did not migrate my IRC bouncer history or configuration, so I'm starting fresh. So if I'm no longer in a channel, feel free to PM me and I'll rejoin!
At the same time I moved the main https://legoktm.com/ homepage to MediaWiki. Hopefully that will encourage me to update the content on it more often.
Finally, the tor relay node I'm running was moved to a separate server entirely. I plan on increasing the resources allocated to it.
The only person who would dare upstage Patrick Marleau's four goal night is Randy Hahn, with his hilarious call after Marleau's third goal to finish a natural hat-trick: "NATTY HATTY FOR PATTY". And after scoring another, Marleau became the first player to score four goals in a single period since the great Mario Lemieux did in 1997. He's also the third Shark to score four goals in a game, joining Owen Nolan (no video available, but his hat-trick from the 1997 All-Star game is fabulous) and Tomáš Hertl.
Marleau is also ready to hit his next milestone of 500 career goals - he's at 498 right now. Every impressive stat he puts up just further solidifies him as one of the greatest hockey players of his generation. But he's still missing the one achievement that all the greats need - a Stanley Cup. The Sharks made their first trip to the Stanley Cup Finals last year, but realistically had very little chance of winning; they simply were not the better team.
The main question these days is how long Marleau and Joe Thornton will keep playing for, and if they can stay healthy until they eventually win that Stanley Cup.
The De Anza Senate unanimously approved a resolution endorsing a proposal to create a direct Valley Transit Authority bus line between the Foothill and De Anza college campuses, and discussed resolutions passed by the Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees about undocumented students and other minority groups.
The meeting abruptly ended after devolving into discussion over the senate’s Facebook group message, in which senate President Matthew Zarate presented prepared screenshots of a private conversation between him and Vice President Stephanie Rigsby.
For the next 10 weeks I'll be posting sports content related to Bay Area teams. I'm currently taking an intro to features writing class, and we're required to keep a blog that focuses on a specific topic. I enjoy sports a lot, so I'll be covering Bay Area sports teams (Sharks, Earthquakes, Raiders, 49ers, Warriors, etc.). I'll also be trialing using Reddit for comments. If it works well, I'll continue using it for the rest of my blog as well. And with that, here goes:
This week the Green Bay Packers will be facing the Atlanta Falcons in the very last NFL game at the Georgia Dome for the NFC Championship. A few hours later, the Pittsburgh Steelers will meet the New England Patriots in Foxboro competing for the AFC Championship - and this will be only the third playoff game in NFL history featuring two quarterbacks with multiple Super Bowl victories.
Neither Bay Area football team has a direct stake in this game, but Raiders and 49ers fans have a lot to root for this weekend.
49ers: If you're a 49ers fan, you want to root for the Falcons to lose. This might sound a little weird, but currently the 49ers are looking to hire Falcons offensive coordinator, Kyle Shanahan, as their new head coach. However, until the Falcons' season ends, they cannnot officially hire him. And since 49ers general manager search depends upon having a head coach, they can get a head start by two weeks if the Falcons lose this weekend.
Raiders: Do you remember the Tuck Rule Game? If so, you'll still probably be rooting for anyone but Tom Brady, quarterback for the Patriots. If not, well, you'll probably want to root for the Steelers, who eliminated Raiders' division rival Kansas City Chiefs last weekend in one of the most bizarre playoff games. Even though the Steelers could not score a single touchdown, they topped the Chiefs two touchdowns with a record six field goals. Raiders fans who had to endure two losses to the Chiefs this season surely appreciated how the Steelers embarrassed the Chiefs on prime time television.
